[jambutty]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I have a random letters and numbers email address and one which is the same as my user name here and I still get the same amount of junk on both! It gets dumped straight to spam or trashcan though so I never have to see it unless I go looking.

That’s because both email addresses are know by the spammers and will be on one of the many CD’s that are for sale. The last offer by spam email that I got was for a CD with a claimed ONE MILLION active email addresses and the soft ware to organise spamming for $10.

In spite of their protestations to the contrary and declarations that they never pass on your details to a third party, many webmasters DO sell on your email address.

If you have your own web site no doubt somewhere on it you will have something like “If you want to contact me click on this link”. That is another source of emails for the spammers.

Just recently I have been getting spam emails where the header shows that I sent them to myself. Of course I didn’t but if I tag them as spam I could end up not getting legitimate emails.

There is no real way to defeat the spammers, just delay them for a while by changing your email address occasionally. It will become known sooner or later but until that happens you will be spam free.